IDENTIFIERS
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id:	240104
accession number:	P.15074-R

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 9 January 2020
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: After the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1787-9, exh. R.A. 1789, no. 179; Mannings, 2054; Courtauld Gallery, London). From the story of Cupid and Psyche as originally told by Apuleius in his Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass), 2nd Century AD. Psyche holds up an oil lamp in her right hand as she kneels on a bed beside the sleeping Cupid, his bow tucked under his right side. Patterned curtains around the bed. The crescent moon viewed through a window to the right.
title:	print

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay, 1912

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240104





TECHNIQUES
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mezzotint

CATEGORIES
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category: print

DATING
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creation date:	1816 - 1816
creation date earliest:	1816
creation date latest:	1816
culture:	18th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Say, William
maker: Reynolds, Joshua